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[The day] [Driving around Victoria] [How the press reacted]

The day

After 5 years of playing backgammon, Diane Edwards and Fred Curtis were married on Oct 28th 2001 in a tiny surprise wedding in Fred's grandmother's backyard.

Afterwards, fish and chips were fetched from a local café.

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The conspirators and their succinct vows			Forgotten mobile plus special guest appearance by clothesline & pink towel
Paperwork			The Merchandise
Yes, yes, most amusing			Primitive grooming ritual
In a cereal box, you say?			The guests squashed together

Driving around Victoria

The next few days were spent hooning around the Victorian countryside in a rental car.

Chinese Museum in Bendigo		Small embroidery			Large embroidery
Chinese Gardens in Bendigo		Inspecting the Eight Immortals
Pink Lakes		Predawn sky			Sunrise 1
		Predawn lake			Sunrise 2
Town Names		Boinka			Underbool
		Wycheproof Pron. Witchy-proof			Galah
		Manangatang			Chinkapook
Paddle boats in Echuca		The Emmy Lou			The Gemma
Back in Albury		Curious number plates

How the press reacted

• The judge pronounced them husband and wife, "sentences to run concurrently".

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• Being asked whether it was better to marry or not, he replied, "Whichever you do, you will repent it."

  -- Attributed to Socrates in Socrates by Diogenes Laertius.

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• By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher ... and that is a good thing for any man.

  -- Socrates

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• It [marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

  -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

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• "He [...] lived in utter disregard of the most elementary rules of hygiene. If he had not married later a woman of exceptional intelligence who made it the only object of her life to preserve him, he would have died many years ago from consequences of sheer neglect" -- Nikola Tesla commenting on Thomas Edison.

  -- Quote from "Strange Brains and Genius" by Clifford A. Pickover [More quotes from "Strange Brains and Genius"]

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• "Oh, I say, Bertie," he said, suddenly, "I know what I wanted to tell you. I'm married."

  I stared at him. That flower in his buttonhole. That dazed look. Yes, he had all the symptoms; and yet the thing seemed incredible.

  -- From Bingo and the Little Woman in The World of Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse [More quotes from The World of Jeeves]

• Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. -- Edmond About

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